Talking of affordability, generally, cupcakes tend to be less expensive. The reason for this is, that stacked cakes are more time-consuming to make, and, to allow adequate presentation, they require skills and level of experience beyond those required for making cupcakes. (For this reason, It ’s probably marginally safer to order wedding cupcakes from a website that also offers wedding cakes, if choosing an online supplier - this eliminates the chance of an overoptimistic new ’cupcakeess ’ trying her hand out on your wedding day.) Thinking of uniqueness of your wedding day, though, it ’s not the price difference between the two that should be the deciding factor, but rather what you ’d like to remember when the wedding expenses are long forgotten: your wedding memories are there to stay.

Prior to the introduction of the cupcake to the kitchens of America, cakes were made by weighing the ingredients. Cupcakes were made by measuring the ingredients for the first time. It has been suggested that this is perhaps where the term "cup cake" originated, since everything was measured in cups. Other origins of the name have also been offered, such as the fact they are baked in a cup but at one time, cupcakes were also called "number cakes". This name originated from the recipe, whereby it required "...once cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, four eggs..." At one time, recipes called for cupcakes to be "...baked into little tins."

Its midnight and you ’ve got the munchies. What do you do? There is a box of cold pizza from two nights ago and a few pieces of leftover sushi, but your taste buds are craving something different, something sweeter, a delectable morsel that will perfectly melt in the mouth. A commercial flashes on the television; it ’s that faithful Pillsbury dough boy busy mixing up a batter of rich creamy cupcake batter! Eureka!